It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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